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Evolution
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Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term
Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
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Biology 3.4 Evolution
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Bio 3.4 Explain the theory of evolution by natural selection as a mechanism for how species
change over time.
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Websites
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http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/selection/selection.html
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http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/popgen/popgen5.htm
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http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/futuyma.html
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http://www.biology-online.org/2/10_natural_selection.htm
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How a cell might have formed
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http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-beginning-of-life-and-amphiphilic-molecules/
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http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/organelles/
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Bio 3.4.1 Explain how fossil, biochemical, and anatomical evidence support the theory of
evolution.
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Bio 3.4.2 Explain how natural selection influences the changes in species over time.
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Bio 3.4.3 Explain how various disease agents (bacteria, viruses, chemicals) can influence natural
selection.
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SWBAT define and explain the following terms:
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Anaerobic
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Anatomical
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Biochemical
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Endosymbiosis
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Evolution
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Fossil
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Homologous
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Evolution
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Hydrothermal Vent
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Miller and Urey
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Protocell
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Adaptations
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Alleles
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Genetic Recombination
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Genetic Variation
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Geographic Isolation
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Speciation
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Natural Selection
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Active Immunity
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Antibiotic Resistance
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Antiviral
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Bacteria
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Natural Selection
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Passive Immunity
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Pesticide Resistance Vaccines
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Virus
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Conditions on early earth affected the type of organisms that developed.
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How did earth’s early atmosphere influence the type of cells that evolved?
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What is the proposed sequence of how the first organisms developed?
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What did the results of the Miller and Urey experiment suggest?
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Fossil, biochemical, and anatomical evidence inform our understanding of evolution.
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What can and cannot be inferred from fossils?
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How is biochemical analysis and homologous structures used as evidence of evolution?
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3.4.2 Natural selection and geographic isolation are mechanisms of evolution which can lead to
speciation.
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How did natural selection shape bird beaks on the Galapagos islands?
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What does “fitness” mean in terms of natural selection?
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How can geographic isolation result in speciation?
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3.4.3 Natural selection can result in pesticide, antibiotic, vaccine and antiviral resistance.
Passive and active immunity have a role in natural selection.
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How are MRSA and natural selection related?
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Why do you have to get a new flu vaccine every year?
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What role do passive and active immunity play in natural selection?